Laravel 5 .env.travis file is ignored - travis-ci

Question

I created a new file for Travis CI environment that looks like this
.env.travis
APP_ENV=travis
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_KEY=SomeRandomString
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_DATABASE=travis
DB_USERNAME=travis
DB_PASSWORD=
CACHE_DRIVER=file
SESSION_DRIVER=file
And this env file seems to be ignored.
I tested with creating a new console class with this content
public function fire()
{
//
echo env('APP_ENV') ."\n";
echo "Database ". env('DB_DATABASE') ."\n";
echo "Username ". env('DB_USERNAME') ."\n";
}
When I run the command I get this output
➤ ./artisan env:database --env=travis
local
Database forge
Username forge
Do you know why the environment file is ignored?

Answer 1

I found a way to make the travis env file be used.
It's a bit of a hack, but this way you can have your .env file separate fron the .env.travis file
Just run the copy command to overwrite the .env file with your .env.travis file in the .travis.yml config
before_script:
- cp .env.travis .env

Answer 2

If anyone like me is here to see a full config file to copy past it, here's a full travis config file that works well with Laravel 5.*
.travis.yml
language: php
php:
- 5.5.9
- 5.6
- 7.0
- hhvm
matrix:
allow_failures:
- php: hhvm
before_script:
- cp .env.travis .env
- mysql -e 'create database homestead;'
- composer self-update
- composer install --prefer-source --no-interaction --dev
- php artisan migrate
- php artisan db:seed
script: vendor/bin/phpunit
make sure you have .env.travis